Exodus 21:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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  • Gen 28:8 : 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
  • Exod 8:29 : 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms [of flies] may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
  • Deut 20:7 : 7 And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
  • Deut 21:11-14 : 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
  • Judg 9:19 : 19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
  • Judg 14:3 : 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there] never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
  • 1 Sam 8:6 : 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 18:8 : 8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?
  • Job 6:15 : 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, [and] as the stream of brooks they pass away;
  • Mal 2:11-15 : 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. 13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand. 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:2-7
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    85%

    2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

    6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • Exod 21:9-11
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    84%

    9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

    11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

  • Deut 21:11-15
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    11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

    12Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

    13And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

    14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

    15¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

  • Exod 22:15-17
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    15[But] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing], it came for his hire.

    16¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Lev 19:20
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    20And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that [is] a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 22:19-21
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    19And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

    20But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:

    21Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

  • Num 30:5-6
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    5But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

    6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

  • Deut 22:27-29
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    27For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.

    28If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

  • Exod 21:26-27
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    26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Num 30:8
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    8But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;

  • Lev 25:51-52
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    51If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

    52And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

  • Deut 22:23
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    23If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

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    20And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

  • Deut 15:12
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    12¶ [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

  • Lev 25:26-28
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    26And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

    27Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

    28But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

  • Deut 25:8
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    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her;

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    48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

  • Num 30:12
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    12But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

  • Deut 15:16-17
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    16And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

    17Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

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    16And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

  • Lev 25:54
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    54And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his children with him.

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    10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

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    15¶ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: